IDENTIFIERS
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id:	156359
accession number:	MAR.M.286-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 18 August 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: enamel on copper with gilt metal mounts; rectangular with straight sides and hinged slightly domed lid.  The box is painted with pastoral scenes in coloured enamels on a white enamelled ground.  Depicted on the lid is a 'scene galante' with three pairs of lovers and a begging dog in a wood; inside the lid are two women listening to a shepherd playing the bagpipes; on each side are a pair of lovers, and on the base are a mother and two children. The gilt metal mount round the lid is reeded and has a scrolled thumbpiece.  The lower mount has small scrolls extending down each corner of the box.  Inside the box both mounts have fluted edges.
object type: enamel on copper with gilt metal mounts; rectangular; painted with pastoral views of courting couples
title:	snuff box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: uncertain before testator


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156359

PEOPLE
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shepherd
shepherdess
woman
man
children

SUBJECTS
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bagpipe
sheep
dog
bagpipe
sheep
dog



CATEGORIES
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category: boxes

DATING
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creation date:	1750 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, third quarter
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.6

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 6.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5.5



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